Comments on: Organic wine and angry lawyers don’t mix

By: Siel

Siel — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:24:27 +0000

Sometimes I’m kinda slow to learn from my mistakes :) Hopefully I’ve learned my lesson and there won’t be argumentative asshole stories involving a lawyerboy3…

By: lee

lee — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 15:37:38 +0000

a lawyer turned into an argumentaitive asshole after getting let down. no! really? only in LA

buah ha ha ha…

By: stephanie

stephanie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

is this the same guy we were talking about at maher? how funny. well, maybe now he’ll get the picture. and gosh … i sure hope he doesn’t read your blog or anything! ;-)

By: Mark Derricutt

Mark Derricutt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There should be more women like you out there, well, not in the “not dating” sense, but in the “no friends” sense.

I have so many female friends that I never see my weekends are quite, well quiet ;p

As you say - break up early, break up fast. Additionally, I’m tempted to also say don’t spare the pain. Any hint of hope to a guy is a dangerous thing to the girl…

Hope hurts more than heart break…

By: Roger, Gone Green

Roger, Gone Green — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Gee, whatever happened to casual dating? Is it “boyfriend” or nothing? When I was a single guy — and a lawyer no less — I would “go out” with different people, sometimes several times, on a casual basis. Sometimes those got serious for one or the other of us, and someone had to be let down. Sometimes we’d become mutually acknowledged “friends with benefits.” Sometimes, we’d just remain casual, and dating evolved into doing something with a friend — or two. Heck, I married a few of ‘em (grin).

I have heard it said that suffering is the one thing we can count on in life, but that we can avoid that by learning not to run our lives based on expectations and assumptions — such as the pain of the conversation (a self-fulfilling prophecy?) or expectations concerning other boys.

Ah well; ‘nuf old-guy advice. (grin).

By: Siel

Siel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Dude, this WAS casual. It’s just that after a few dates, I knew — boyfriend or not — that he was never, EVER gonna see me naked — which would rule out the whole fuck buddy thing (that’s what we call “friends with benefits” today — FB for short ;). Casual dating’s not that fun if the guy’s a bad kisser.

In my defense, I tried to end things last weekend by saying that I wasn’t interested in anything serious. Unfortunately, he took this to mean, I think, that I wanted to be FBs — and asked me to come stay over at his place. Gross.

But I hear ya with the whole expectations thing. So I’ll add organic food loving lawyers back to the list ;)

stephanie — Yes — Same guy! He knows about the blog, but I’m hoping he’ll stay 10 feet away from anything that has to do with me now.

And Mark — Hope on — It’s an interesting feeling. You know, like a heartbreak.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

sorry, can’t weigh in on the angry lawyer aspect, but will make another organic wine comment. frey looks like they deserve props for their trendsetting ways in the “greed and wack clothes” 80s. for a compelling corporate winery meets sustainability story, you should check out paul dolan’s book, true to our roots. i haven’t read it, but i remember being impressed when i heard him speak in LA a few years ago…

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m thinking lawyerboy2 is not so bright if he KNOWS about your blog and still thought that arguing with you about organic food and coffee was somehow a good idea. For godsakes, it’s almost like a guy trying to impress me by telling me I’d look really cute barefoot and pregnant. ;-)

Siel, I’m just curious … is there a good lawyerboy1 story too then? Do tell!

By: Siel

Siel — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Justin — I just added True to Our Roots to my froogle wish list :) Thanks for the suggestion! Will report on it later.

Stephanie — There is a lawyerboy1 story too — with some striking similarities to the lawyerboy2 story. More later ;)